Suspender-buckle.



PATENTED AUG. 9, 1904. D. L. SMITH.

SUSPENDER BUGKLE. APPLIGATION FILED APR. 1s. 1,904.

N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented August 9, 1904.

PATENT OEEICE.

DWIGHT L. SMITH, OF IVATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WATER- BURYBUCKLE CO., OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

sUsPENDEn-BUGKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 767,126, dated August9, 1904.

Serial No. 203,462. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, DwieI-rr L. Smau-I, of Vaterbury, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Suspender-Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following,when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the numeralsof reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact iodescription of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of thisspecilieation, and represent, in-n Figure l, a view in front elevationof a webbed buckle constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2,a detached view, in rear elevation, of the buckle, from which thewebloing has been removed; Fig. 3, a View of the buckle in verticalsection on the line c?) of Fig. 1 and showing the webbing; Fig. ll, a

zo detached end view 'of the buckle-lever; Fig. 5, a view of the blankused in producing the buckle-lever shown by Fig. 4L; Fig. 6, a detachedend view of one of the modified forms which the lever may assume; Fig. 7a view z 5 of the blank required for producing such a lever as is shownin Fig. 6.

My invention relates to an improvement in suspender-buckles, the objectbeing to avoid using any portion of the gripping edges of 3o thebuckle-levers for making the sockets required for the pivotal connectionof the said levers with the buckle-frames.

With these ends in view my invention consists in certain details ofconstruction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafterdescribed, and pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out my invention as shown in Figs. l to 5, inclusive, thefiat linger-piece Q of the sheet-metal buckle-lever is formed upon 4oits side edges with two bearing-lingers 3, bent rearward at a rightangle to its plane and by preference havingI their upper edges concavedto forni seats 2u; but this is not essential. These fingers are locatedso as to eoact with the ends of the bend or bowed reach 4, uniting thelinger-piece 2 and the gripping edge 5 of the buckle-lever to formsockets 6 6 for the reception of the pintles 7 7 of the wirebuekle-frame, which, as shown, isA made from a,

single piece of wire and comprises the said 5o pintles 7 7, ends 8 8,and a lower side or bar 9, from the eenterof which a loop-likelingerpiece l0 depends. The said pintles 7 7 together constitute theupper side or bar of the buckle and are arranged parallel with the lowerside or bar 9 thereof. The formation of the sockets (i 6 in the mannerdescribed provides for pivotally connecting the bucklelever andbuckle-frame together in such a waythat they will not bind, but swing'freely 60 with respect to each other, while at the same time, and thisis very important, it does not require any curtaihnent of the fulllength of the cutting' edge 5 of the buckle-lever, whereas it has beencommon heretofore to form the sockets for the pintles of thebuckle-frame by utilizing' the metal at the ends of the gripping edge ofthe lever for the purpose. It will be noted by reference to Fig. 5 thatthe bearing-lingers 2) are located below the hori- V70 zontal line 'onwhich the buckle-lever blank is bent to form the bend 4. between itsfingerpiece i2 and its gripping' etlge 5.

Instead of forming the bearing-fingers 3 upon the finger-piece 9. QI.may form correspending bearing-lingers 1l at the extreme ends of thegripping edge l2 of the bucklelever and bend them forward at a rightangle to the plane of the said edge, whereby they p are brought intoposition to coact with the ends of the bend or reach 13 of the lever toform pintle-sockets la, the lever also having a linger-piece l5. In thisinodilied construetion the bearing-tngers 1l virtually constituteIextensions of the gripping edge of the 35 lever and do not curtail thelength of the gripping portion of the said edge.

1t will be noted by reference to Fig. 7 that the bearing-iingr-n's l1are located above the line on which the buckle-lever blank is bent to 9oform the bend .i3 between its linger-piece l5 and its gripping edge 19..In this modified construction the bearing-lingers are formed upon theside edges of the buckle-lever, but above the line on which the blankforming the same is bent instead of below that line, as in the fornilirst described.

shown in Figs. l and 3, the buckle has a piece of webbing 16 applied toit, so as to protect the metal of the buckle and make it what is knownto thc trade as a rustless buckle.

In view of the modification shown and described and of others which mayobviously be made I would have it understood that I do not limit myselt`to the particular forms set forth herein, but hold myself at liberty tomake such variations therefrom as fairly fall within the spirit andscope of my invention.

and located in position to coact with the ends of the said bend of thebuckle-lever to form sockets for the pivotal connection of thebuckle-frame and the buckle-lever.

2. In a buckle, the combination with the buckle-frame thereof, of abuckle-lever having a finger-piece, a gripping edge and a bend unitingthe said gripping edge and fingerpiece and the said finger-piecebeingfurnished upon its side edges with bearing-lingers bent at a rightangle to the said finger-piece and located in position to coact with theends of the said bend of the buckle-lever to form sockets for thepivotal connection of the said buckle-lever with the said buckle-frame.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

DWIGHT L. SMITH.

Vitnesses:

HARRY C. CooLEY, MARSHALL F. KLOPPENBURG.

